American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing Countries. By Erin Metz McDonnell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii+290. $29.95 (paper).71
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary. By Gábor Scheiring. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xxvii+367. $119.99 (cloth); $79.99 42
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles. By Rocío Rosales. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. ix+197. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).41
Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. By Mark Solovey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. x+398. $50.00 (paper).30
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City24
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making23
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century23
Book Reviewers for Volume 13020
We Need More Data18
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory18
Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value18
“We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform17
Ethnography’s Laborious Crossing17
Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. By Katie L. Acosta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. x+258. $30.00 (paper).17
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics17
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries16
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+298. $29.95.16
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black15
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles14
Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat. By Ruth Milkman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. viii+196. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).14
Editor's Page14
The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America. By Andrew Deener. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 328. $97.5014
Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance. By Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. $29.95.14
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences14
Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State. By Jessie S. G. Wozniak. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).14
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations12
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden12
The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting. By Jennifer Patico. New York: New York University Press. Pp. 230. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).12
A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations12
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification11
Editor’s Page11
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance11
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor11
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India11
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content10
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins10
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend. By Cassi Pittman Claytor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (pap9
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security9
Contributors9
Contents of Volume 1289
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations9
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. By Orlando Patterson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. x+409. $35.00.8
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals8
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–19908
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes8
Contents of Volume 1297
Contributors List7
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today7
Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality7
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America7
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America7
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–20157
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation7
:Social Democratic Capitalism6
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival6
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden6
Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. By Ghassan Moussawi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. 210. $94.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).6
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. By Rustamjon Urinboyev. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xi+169. $34.95 (paper).6
The Great Interstate Divergence: Partisan Bureaucracies in the Contemporary United States5
Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Market. By Matías Dewey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. x+276. $45.00.5
Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology. By Krishan Kumar. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. xiii+204. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).5
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid5
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium5
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture5
Contributors5
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease5
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice. By Zakiya Luna. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).5
None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada. By Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).5
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption5
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion4
Editor's Page4
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality4
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20164
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness4
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality4
Acknowledgment to Referees4
Grassroots Environmentalism. By Suzanne Staggenborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+244. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).4
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise4
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism4
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units4
Front Matter4
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy4
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine4
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality4
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens4
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
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Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient3
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities3
Race by Law for Asian Americans3
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches3
The Single Motherhood Penalty as a Gender Penalty: Comment on Brady, Finnigan, and Hübgen3
Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico3
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism3
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals. By Katja M. Guenther. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+295. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).3
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries3
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Contributors3
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities3
Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances. By Cynthia J. Cranford. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+220. $26.95 (paper).2
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong. By Douglas B. Downey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $95.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins. By Timothy Black and Sky Keyes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+342. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).2
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology2
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy: From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal. By Carmen Sirianni. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xxii+464. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (2
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life2
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn1
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Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams. By Janet Vertesi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+320. $45.00.1
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring1
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail1
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement1
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns1
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. By Angèle Christin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+251. $29.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).1
Symposium Introductory Images1
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America1
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought1
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets1
Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music1
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy1
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society1
Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era. By Matthew H. Rafalow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+210. $85.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).1
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment. By Sandya Hewamanne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xx+204. $55.00.0
:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
Contributors0
:Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal. By Siri Suh. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+204. $120.00 (cloth); $34.95 (pap0
Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. By Annie Isabel Fukushima. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+261. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).0
The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. By Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+233. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (pape0
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
Health Care off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America. By Danielle T. Raudenbush. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xi+197. $85.00 (cloth); 0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. By Hannah Wohl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Ascent to Glory: How “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Was Written and Became a Global Classic. By Álvaro Santana-Acuña. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. $115.00 (cloth); $28.00
Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. By Emmanuel Lazega. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020. Pp. xi+341. $145.00.0
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Communists and Community: Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941–1956. By Ryan S. Pettengill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+235. $110.50 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).0
:Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City0
:Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders and Why It Matters0
Race after Technology. By Ruha Benjamin. Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2019. Pp. x+285. $74.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).0
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Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment. By David S. Pedulla. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 20
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
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:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology. By Earl Wright II. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. Pp. ix+250. $50.00.0
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:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
:Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility0
Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest. By Marc Dixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+167. $39.95.0
Contents of Volume 1300
Changing China in Sociological Eyes0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive School Choice. By Kate Phillippo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. xii+217. $100.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).0
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. By Jill A. Fisher. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+317. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. By Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+316. $105.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).0
Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. By Isaac Ariail Reed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2020. Pp. 312. $97.50 (cloth); 32.50 (paper).0
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
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:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
You Are Worthy, Queen: Black Women and Women of Color’s Struggles in the Labor Market Continue0
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
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:The Logic of Social Science0
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
The Relationship between Single Motherhood, Employment, and Poverty: Reply to Moullin and Harkness0
:Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1270
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish. By Howard Lune. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+224. $99.50 (cloth); 34.95 (paper).0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
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:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
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Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
:Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public0
Powered Down: The Microfoundations of Organizational Attempts to Redistribute Power0
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:Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities0
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
:The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight against Racial Preference in College Admissions0
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
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Acknowledgments to Referees0
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses. By Blake R. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 232. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in Queer Nonprofits, 1998–20160
Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education. By Julie R. Posselt. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+223. $90.00 (cloth)0
:The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
:Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
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Love across Borders: Asian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making. By Kelly H. Chong. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. x+236. $160.00 (cloth); $32.95 (pap0
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism0
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Gendered Dignity at Work0
:Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank0
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